Airship ZPG-2 (Serial #141559) made the last flight for a U.S. Navy airship on August 31, 1962, thus ending a 45-year Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) saga that began with the DN-1, the Navy’s first airship.
Categories: 100 Years of Naval Aviation
 
 
Thank you to the Mario Family Foundation for enabling the digitization of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Photo Archive. The physical photos in the Photo Archive are stored in the Mildred M. Mario Photo Archive Room located at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Headquarters in Annapolis, MD.

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